Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-23
DUDES OF EASTERN EUROPE
Hungarian, Bulgarian, Grecian,
Albanian and Persian.

Albanian and Persian.
The Bulgarian or Roumelian dude
incases the lower portion of his body
in pantaloons of a gray, blankety-look-
ing material, tight-titting about the
knees and calves, but with bell bot
tom profusely adorned with black
braid which almost hides his feet,
The seat of the pantaloons hangs
down to his knees and wobbles from
side to side as he walks along. The
front of the legs is also adorned with
black braid figures and artistic curves.
Around his waist is voluminous red
kemnerbund or sash many yards in
length, encircling him in its folds
dozen times. To put this garment
on properly requires the aid of an as
sistant, who stands off and holds one
end while the dude turns himself
round and round; as he takes up the
length like a human bobbin the as
sistapt advances and pays it out. A
short jacket of the same material as
his trowscrs and ornamented with the
same style of braid and a Turkish
fez or Russian brimless hat completes
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bellies of the Balkan peninsula.
The genuine Magyar dude is pic
turesque in the extreme. A biGycock
hat adorned with peacock feathers is
cooked jauntily ON one side OF his
head, silk handkerchief, embracing
several bright colors, encircles his
neck. and he wears a light-colored
Jacket EN- broidered all over with quaint
designs in colored silk, white panta-
looms with embroidered buttons, COM
ing little below the knees and so
full "a to resemble skirt, aud lastly,
shiny top-boots.
The Albanians residing in Constan-
tinople are the biggest dandies in the
Turkish capital; their costumes are
gold-braided brimless hat. fanciful
short jacket with false hanging
sleeves, white frilled shirt with en-
broidered sleeves and front, 3 aounced
white kilt that protrudes like cory
phee's float, white stockings bound
with blue ribbon, and low, dainty
shoes. A gay colored sash, with
oriental pistols richly chased thrust
therein, completes the costume.
One of the biggest surprises in
neither garments the whole world
round is worn by the Grecian dudes
one sees on the streets of Constanti
nople. Imagine a sky blue silken
balloon bottom-side up and fastened
around the wearer's waist, two neat
fitting leg holes made in the bulge,
and the whole bulb collapsed and
swaddling about the legs when walk
ing, and you can imagine the lower
story Of Greek dude. His trunk is
enveloped in tight-ftting jacket
of some other shade of blue, with
loose flowing sleeves and white fur
bellows showing underneath. His
head is adorned with a Greek fez,
from which an enormous black or
blue tassel hangs down his back. The
ornamental appendage looks as if ever
on the eve of pulling the fez off the
wearer's head by its great weight.
He wears the ordinary brogans and
socks and sometimes leaves the calves
of his legs bare.
The Persian dude wears a tall cyl
indrical hat of black lambs wool,
which assumes a decidedly knowing
cock or angle on the back of his head.
His long black hair is trained to curl
stiffiy upward just below the base OF
the hat. He wears sort of round
about coat, fitting tightly about the
body, but which at the waist develops
into plated skirt reaching half way
down to the knees. When he walks
he endeavors to have this skirt ryth-
mically up and down in accord with
his steps. His pantaloons are of Eu-
ropean pattern, with very loose legs,
which are left sufficiently short to dis
play the embroidered tops OF his socks
six inches above his shoes. The mate
rial of his trousers is generally Euro
pean broadcloth, and that of his coat
cashmere shawl material of some flow
cry pattern, or silk good OF some
bright, gay color.-[N. Y. Sun.